Chap. 569. ‘Enghjb Herbs. 
879 
Plantain Sea Grafs Leav'd great. 
rhe pme with thole of the Common Plan- 
fam in Chap. 56$. Sett. 11. ad 25. to which J 
reler you. 
XI. Obfcrvdtion . , 1. Gerard fays. That theie 
Herbs have the fame Faculties and Virtues which 
the other Plantains have 5 and that they are 
thought to be rhe belt or molt efficacious of 
all the Kinds. And Parkinfon fays, that what 
has been fa id of the other Plantains may iii 
lome lort be jultly referred to thefe* for in 
their coldnefs and drynefs, and other Proper- 
ties, Wherein the Plantains are excellent , thefe 
do but little differ, and therefore, That it 
needs nop to repeat the lame things here 
again, which in other places have already been 
lpoken. 
XII. Obferv. 2. Only fays Mattbiohss , That 
the fourth Kind here mentioned called Serpentina , 
the I eople of Gontia in Italy where it grows ule 
it to efpecial good purpofe , againft the Bitings 
ot serpents efpecially, and of other Veno- 
mous Beads (which Matthio/rss himfelf alfo 
lays. That he had found true by good Experi- 
ence;) as alfo to help thofe that are troubled 
with the Dropfy, that chiefly which has pofleft 
the whole Body properly called a Sarcitis at 
An of area. 
XIII. Obferv. 3. Galen , Diof corides , and Pliny 
have proved Sea Plantain , to be fuch an excel- 
lent Wound Herb, that it prefently clofes or 
(huts up a Wound , tho’ it be very great and 
large. And by the fame Authority I fpeak it 
(lays Gerard) That if it be put into a Pot where- 
in pieces of Flefh are Boiling, it will Soder them 
together* 
VII. The fifth , or Letter Grais Leav’d Sea Plan- 
tain. This in its Roots , Leaves , Stalks , Heads , 
Flowers and Seed differs not much from the 
former , or Gfeater Kind-, but that it is 
fmaller , and Scarcely having any dent on 
the edges it grows alfo much . lower , not 
exceeding three or four Inches in height , 
and the Leaves not above two or three Inches 
at mo ft in length, 
VIII. The Places. The firft grows near the 
Sea , and upon the Sea Coaft , in mod places 
of England, as alfo upon the Sea Shores of 
many other Countries. The fecond and third 
ate Natives of Spain, the greater of which Clu- 
fius fays, he faw by the High-way fides near 
to Vale mid-, but fince his time they have been 
found to be Natives alfo of our Country, grow- 
ing at Baftable in the IJIe of Wight, and in the 
1 /lcs of Jerfy and Gcrnfey. The fourth and fifth 
Kinds are Natives of Italy , as Matthiolus fays -, 
and of Germany as Comer arius fays , growing by 
a Lake of Salt Water near Iftebia: fince thofe 
times, we find them to be Natives alfo of our 
Country, and feveral Eye Witneffes have af- 
firmed, that both the greater and leffer Sorts 
grow near the Sea fide in the Wed parts of Eng- 
land ; in all the Trafts of the Marlhes near AJl- 
ferry in Glocefter-Jhire-, and that they grow 
upon the Rocks in Scilly , Garnfey, and the IJIe 
of Man. The fird Species has been found growing 
by the Forts on both fides the Water at Gravef- 
eni ; at Erith near London-, at Lee in Ejfex ; at 
R>r in Kent-, at Weli-Chefter alfo ; andat^ o»near 
Briftol. 
IX. T he Times. They Flower towards the end 
May, and thro’ all June and July, and their Seed 
ripens in a (hort time after. 
X. T he Qualities, Specification, Preparati- 
ons, and Virtues of Sea Plantain, are fully 
PLOWMANS-SPICKNARD,ytrSpicknard-PIow- 
mans, Chap. 
PLUM-TREE, fee it in Lib. 2. Chap. 
POCK WOOD, fee Guajacum, Lib. 2. Chap. 
CHAP. DLXX. 
Of P O L E Y ; 
0 R, 
P O L E Y Mountain. 
*■ / TV / E Karnes. It is called in Greek, Tttuim 
-l (ftc ditfum propter Canitiem , smU enirn 
Canitiem vel Canum fignificat , becaufe it is like to 
the hoary Hairs of a Mans Head:) in Latine 
Folium, a Folium Montanum: in Englijh Foley 
and Foley Mountain. Some will have Folium to 
be Leucas , and that Diofcorides has twice 
treated of that Herb under divers Names for 
that the Kinds, the reafon of their Names 
and the Qualities or Faculties do agree. There 
are two, vis. Moslem, which they will have 
to be Folium Montanum ; and MmJ, which 
ts Folium Hortenfe. The Name Leucas is from 
the wmnfh color j and Polion from its Hoarinels, 
as js aforefaid, being like to the white Hoaxinefs of 
a Mans Head. 
.tt- Tb* Kinds. Authors have made ten or more 
Kinds of this Plant, but they being moft of them 
Strangers 
